000 01819nam a22001817a 4500
008 140820b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020 _a9789988647964
050 _aCB197.I34
100 _aLauer, Helen
245 _aIdentity meets nationality: voices from the humanities. /
_cHelen Lauer
260 _aLegon-Accra:
_bSub-Saharan,
_c2011.
300 _axiv, 297p.:
_c23cm.
500 _aIncludes references.
505 _aContents: The Humanities and the idea of national identity -- Empiricalism: the empirical character of an African philosophy -- Metaphors of death in Akan -- Political nicknaming in Ghana: social representations of democracy achieved through conceptual blending -- "Do not rob us of ourselves": language and nationalism in colonial Ghana -- Language use in education i minority language areas: the case of Logba -- The Dilemma of identity for African American English: a case of African language influence? -- Constructing a national language as a vehicle for national identity -- Material culture and ethnic identity: the case of the Krobo, Ghana -- Negotiating pre-colonial history and future democracy: Kwasi Wiredu and his critics -- Identity crises: constructions of national identity in the poetry of Equatorial Guinea -- "No sweetness here" for our sister", "La Noire"? Gender empowerment in the short stories of Sembene Ousmane and Ama Ata Aidoo -- Constructing national consciousness in Russian literature: some lessons for the African milieu -- Africa's renaissance and the challenges of culture: the failures of NEPAD -- The Music of Ephraim Amu and Isaac Daniel Riverson: 'the known' and 'the not known' Ghanaian composers -- The Performing arts: identity and the new social paradigm.
700 _aAmfo, Nana Aba Appiah.
700 _aAnderson, Jemima Asabea.
942 _2lcc
_cBK
999 _c3600
_d11100